re: What’s with the revisionist history on Christopher Columbus?

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Look it up fool

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I'm not seeing anywhere where 50,000 natives killed themselves just to escape him. In reality, he probably only "killed" maybe about few hundred on the island. He was harsh, but the Spanish were real bastards in the early days and a lot of atrocities were done by other Spaniards on Hispaniola.

He did enslave a lot of Taino and also shipped off a lot to Europe as slaves. He was normal for the time. When the Spanish gained control of Mexico, the carnage was even more wanton.....also the Europeans killed off a lot of indigenous types indirectly through disease that the natives had not built up any immunity to. That killed far more than any direct action.....same thing happened in New Zealand on a lesser scale to the Maori